A South Carolina bankruptcy court last week ordered a local law firm to disclose the names of bankruptcy clients amidst a discovery dispute with the U.S. Trustee. The attorney-client privilege, the court held, does not apply to information disclosed for ... Read full article
A North Carolina Bankruptcy Court recently upheld the advice of counsel defense to allegations that a debtor knowingly and fraudulently made a false oath in bankruptcy, confirming once again that debtors who reasonably act, after full disclosure to their ... Read full article
The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota recently denied a motion to compel a bankruptcy fraud defendant's former attorney to turn over his case file to assist the former-client in preparing an anticipated habeas petition. ... Read full article
A serial bankruptcy filer was criminally referred to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Texas in connection with an alleged and convoluted series of bankruptcy filings in his own and his ex-wife's name in order to stay ... Read full article
A recent case that provides great practical lessons both for counsel and bankruptcy criminal defendants denied a defendant's motion to dismiss an indictment under circumstances where an alleged plea agreement on misdemeanor charges could not be ... Read full article
The Third Circuit recently remanded the case of a bankruptcy fraud defendant for re-sentencing on the ground that the district court failed adequately to explain how it applied the statutory sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. 3553(a) and failed to explain ... Read full article
Former Uber Technologies engineer Anthony Scott Levandowski has requested court approval in his chapter 11 bankruptcy case to employ a criminal defense firm as special counsel. Both Google and the Office of the United States Trustee (UST) filed replies. ... Read full article
Grant White, CEO of Americore Holdings LLC, invoked his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination during a deposition Thursday before the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in his Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Americore and its affiliated ... Read full article
The Deloitte Forensic Center and its Reorganization Services Group has produced the findings of a report that studied the correlation between bankruptcy and fraud. The primary question examined was whether the increased scrutiny that follows a ... Read full article
The Deloitte Forensic Center and its Reorganization Services Group has produced the findings of a report that studied the correlation between bankruptcy and fraud. The primary question examined was whether the increased scrutiny that follows a ... Read full article
